Hunger and Work in a Savage Tribe: A Functional Study of Nutrition Among the Southern Bantu (Routledge Classic Ethnographies) - Softcover

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Richards, Audrey

 
9780415320115: Hunger and Work in a Savage Tribe: A Functional Study of Nutrition Among the Southern Bantu (Routledge Classic Ethnographies)
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ISBN 10: 0415320119 ISBN 13: 9780415320115
Publisher: Routledge, 2003

Synopsis

Hunger and Work in a Savage Tribe examines the cultural aspects of food and eating among the Southern Bantu, taking as its starting point the bold statement 'nutrition as a biological process is more fundamental than sex'. When it was first published in 1932, with a preface by Malinowski, it laid the groundwork for sociological theory of nutrition. Richards was also among the first anthropologists to establish women's lives and the social sphere as legitimate subjects for anthropological study.

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About the Author

Audrey I. Richards (1899–1984) was for many years lecturer in Social Anthropology at the London School of Economics and is the author of Land, Labour and Diet in Northern Rhodesia and Chisungu: a girls’ initiation ceremony among the Bemba of Northern Rhodesia. She was one of the first anthropologists to study women’s lives and the social sphere and was herself one of the first female anthropologists in British academia.

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Publisher
Routledge
Publication date
2003
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0415320119
ISBN 13 
9780415320115
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
2
Number of pages
264

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